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Old 08-14-2006, 09:40 AM  
Jer
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Brazil
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Serious Orkut security hole exploited (Google's "myspace", mostly used by brazilians)

My wife has some big Orkut communities, so she's targetted quite often when people find security holes. In 2005 (I think) someone stole 2 or 3 of her biggest communities. After the guy made the news and was happy, he transfered the communities back to her. Actually my wife made the newspapers too.
Google/Orkut didn't help her or any other user who got communities

Yesterday she was in her Orkut profile and clicked the "scraps" link to read the messages people send to her, but she got redirected to a page hosted on yahoo with something like "thanks for posting in our guestbook"... seconds after this she noticed the two biggest communities were gone and as time was passing by, all her other communities were gone too Now she can't even login anymore, I don't know if it's related with this or not.

I have no idea if the "scraps" thing works only when she clicks it or when someone else clicks her profile too. If it's the second option Orkut will be a chaos soon. The other time was a link INSIDE her profile, targetted to transfer 2 of her communities.

Other people got their communities stolen yesterday as well.

I know almost everyone here don't care at all and I don't know why I'm posting this here.
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